Pharaohs Reign Slot Review, Demo Play, Payout, Free Spins & Bonuses

Pharaoh's Reign Review

Kalamba keeps tweaking their K-Cash system per release, hoping something will stick. They have plenty of decent installments under their belt by now, but they’ve yet to see solid mainstream success or release a smash hit that stays high on the charts over time. Pharaoh's Reign takes you to a surprisingly green and lush ancient Egypt city, but the dimly lit backdrop keeps your focus strictly on the action playing out on the 5x3 grid.

The base game is rather simple and straightforward, and you’ll benefit from an x2 boost whenever at least one wild is involved in a win. The bonus round makes this installment stick out a bit, as all wilds are converted to K-Cash instant prize symbols or Cashpot Meter increment symbols regardless of whether or not they are involved in a win. This system is somewhat innovative, but it’s also done in a way that somewhat annoyingly slows down the pace of the feature.

Pharaoh's Reign Slot - Reels Screen

Pharaoh's Reign Slot Features

The Wild symbol steps in for all regular pay symbols to help complete winning combos, and it’s also the most valuable symbol in the game. Landing 5 wilds on a payline awards 100x your stake, while the regular premiums pay between 8 and 15 x your stake for the same. All wins involving wilds are subject to an x2 multiplier, but this is not the case for pure wild symbol wins.

You get 10 free spins when you land 3+ scatters to trigger the Bonus Round, and you also get an upfront scatter win of 2, 5 or 10 x your stake for 3, 4 or 5 scatters, respectively.

You win +10 extra spins the exact same way during the feature, and the scatter payout remains the same as well.

All wilds that land during the bonus round are turned into either K-Cash prize symbols or Cashpot symbols. The K-Cash symbol adds a smaller payout to your total immediately as they are revealed, while the Cashpot symbol increments the Cashpot Meter seen above the reels by 1 per Cashpot symbol that is revealed.

You win the following Cashpot prizes by collecting up to 20 Cashpot symbols in the Cashpot Meter:

• Collect 3 Cashpot symbols to win 10x your stake.
• Collect 6 Cashpot symbols to win 20x your stake.
• Collect 10 Cashpot symbols to win 100x your stake.
• Collect 15 Cashpots symbols to win 200x your stake.
• Collect 20 Cashpots symbols to win 1,000x your stake.

Non-UK players, and anyone eligible, can take advantage of the HyperBonus feature. This allows you to pay 73.25 or 188.25 x your stake for 10 or 20 free spins, respectively. The bonus buy feature increases the RTP to 97.12 or 97.41 % for the 10 and 20 spins options, respectively.

The 200 Spins Pharaoh's Reign Slot Experience

We got plenty of dead spins in the base game, but you get to see at least one boosted wild win before we purchase the bonus round at 1:17 into the 4:34-minute highlights video. We went for the 20 free spins option, of course, and you can see for yourself which Cashpot we ended up with by hitting the play button below.

Review Summary

We like that Kalamba is doing something a bit different with their K-Cash feature this time, and they’ve basically paired the traditional bonus round with elements you might recognize from hold-and-win style features.

That being said however, it gets a bit annoying to wait for the usually small K-Cash prizes to be revealed one by one, as you land wilds on most spins. The pace of the game would have suffered less if prizes were summed up and paid in an instant.

The Cashpot Meter is another somewhat clever twist, although many similar games offer instant jackpots instead. Here, you need to collect 3 Cashpot symbols to win even 10x your stake, and 20 to land the 1,000x top prize. The overall 2,400x potential isn’t all that impressive for a medium to high volatility release, but it can, in theory, be cracked also in the base game thanks to the x2 multiplier boosts you get from wild wins.

Pros

• Wild wins are subject to x2 multiplier
• FS wilds turn into K-Cash prizes
• Win Cashpot prizes up to 1,000x

Cons

• Overall 2,400x potential is a bit low
• Beware of adjustable RTP ranges

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